Cost Controller

Job description / Role

Position objective

The position is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day execution of general ledger impacted processes, including support to clients and departments as they work with and understand these processes.
Perform accounting functions specifically in the areas of account balancing, ledger reconciliation, reporting and discrepancy resolution.
Perform in areas relating to general ledgers, subsidiary ledgers and related reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for doing monthly book closing by end of the month for previous month.
• Responsible for bank reconciliation by closing by end of the month for previous month.
• Responsible for group company account reconciliation by end of the month for previous month.
• Internal audit and query resolution of internal audit.
• Fixed assets booking and maintaining fixed assets register.
• MIS (daily, weekly, fortnight and monthly).
• Vendor management and vendor reconciliation.
• Finalization of accounts.
• Ensure final settlement is close within the cut-off day from the date of last working day of employee.
• Ledger scrutiny: ensure books are up to date and free from errors and omissions.
• Advances if any adjusted against subsequent payment.
• Cost control and reduction.
• Budgeting.

About the Company

The Apparel Group is a global fashion and lifestyle brand conglomerate residing on the crossroads of a modern economy - Dubai, UAE. The mercurial growth in the last 17 years has been by acquiring a host of world class fashion labels from around the world - Nine West, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Aldo & Tim Hortons just to name a few.

Today the group caters to thousands of eager shoppers through its over 1530 stores, 75 International brands and employing 12,000 multi cultural staff in over 4 continents. Apparel believes in turning dreams in to reality and we give everyone - our customers, our stakeholders, our employees - an equal opportunity to do so.

Apparel group has carved its strong presence not only in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia but opened thriving gateways to market in India, South Africa, Poland, Singapore, Jordan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Additionally, clear strategies are in place to enter emerging markets such as Hungary, Pakistan, Egypt and Philippines.